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LockBit redraws negotiation tactics after affiliates fail to squeeze victims
In response to growing frustrations inside the LockBit organization, its leaders have overhauled the way they negotiate with ransomware victims going forward.…
SonicWall swallows Solutions Granted amid cybersecurity demand surge
Channel-focused cybersecurity company SonicWall is buying Virginia-based MSSP Solutions Granted – its first acquisition in well over a decade.…
Samsung UK discloses year-long breach, leaked customer data
The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data breach – the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years.…
Look out, Scattered Spider. FBI pumps 'significant' resources into snaring data-theft crew
The FBI is applying "significant" resources to find members of the infamous Scattered Spider cyber-crime crew, which seemingly attacked a couple of high-profile casinos a few months ago and remains active, according to a senior bureau official.…
Rackspace racks up $12M bill in ransomware raid recovery
Rackspace's costs from last year's ransomware infection continue to mount: the cloud hosting biz told America's financial watchdog, the SEC, its total expenses to date regarding that cyberattack have reached $12 million – so far.…
Windows Server 2022 update gave ESXi host VMs the blue screen blues
Something likely to be absent from Microsoft's Ignite event is talk of a fix rolled out to deal with malfunctioning Windows Server 2022 Virtual Machines following a problematic update from the company.…
BlackCat plays with malvertising traps to lure corporate victims
Affiliates of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service operation are turning to malvertising campaigns to establish an initial foothold in their victims' systems.…
Royal Mail’s recovery from ransomware attack will cost business at least $12M
Royal Mail's parent company has revealed for the first time the infrastructure costs associated with its January ransomware attack.…
Hundreds of websites cloned to run ads for Chinese football gambling outfits
Swedish digital rights organization Qurium has discovered around 250 cloned websites and suggested they exist to drive people to China-linked gambling sites.…
Clorox CISO flushes self after multi-million-dollar cyberattack
The Clorox Company's chief security officer has left her job in the wake of a corporate network breach that cost the manufacturer hundreds of millions of dollars.…
Google Workspace weaknesses allow plaintext password theft
Novel weaknesses in Google Workspace have been exposed by researchers, with exploits potentially leading to ransomware attacks, data exfiltration, and password decryption.…
FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'
FBI director Christopher Wray made yet another impassioned plea to US lawmakers to kill a proposed warrant requirement for so-called "US person queries" of data collected via the Feds' favorite snooping tool, FISA Section 702.…
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Ransomware more efficient than ever, and baddies are still after your logs
Organizations are still failing to implement adequate logging measures, increasing the difficulty faced by defenders and incident responders to identify the cause of infosec attacks.…
Another month, another bunch of fixes for Microsoft security bugs exploited in the wild
Patch Tuesday Heads up: Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday includes fixes for about 60 vulnerabilities – including three that have already been found and abused in the wild.…
Russian national pleads guilty to building now-dismantled IPStorm proxy botnet
The FBI says it has dismantled another botnet after collaring its operator, who admitted hijacking tens of thousands of machines around the world to create his network of obedient nodes.…
AMD SEV OMG: Trusted execution undone by cache meddling
Boffins based in Germany and Austria have found a flaw in AMD's SEV trusted execution environment that makes it less than trustworthy.…
Intel out-of-band patch addresses privilege escalation flaw
Intel on Tuesday issued an out-of-band security update to address a privilege escalation vulnerability in recent server and personal computer chips.…
Ransomware royale: US confirms Royal, BlackSuit are linked
The US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released fresh guidance on the Royal ransomware operation, saying that evidence suggests it may soon undergo a long-speculated rebrand.…
Novel backdoor persists even after critical Confluence vulnerability is patched
A new backdoor was this week found implanted in the environments of organizations to exploit the recently disclosed critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence.…
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